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2016-09-09arm64: alternative: Add support for patching adrp instructionsSuzuki K Poulose
adrp uses PC-relative address offset to a page (of 4K size) of a symbol. If it appears in an alternative code patched in, we should adjust the offset to reflect the address where it will be run from. This patch adds support for fixing the offset for adrp instructions. Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Cc: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
2016-09-09arm64: alternative: Disallow patching instructions using literalsSuzuki K Poulose
The alternative code patching doesn't check if the replaced instruction uses a pc relative literal. This could cause silent corruption in the instruction stream as the instruction will be executed from a different address than what it was compiled for. Catch all such cases. Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Cc: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Suggested-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
2016-08-25arm64: Create sections.hJames Morse
Each time new section markers are added, kernel/vmlinux.ld.S is updated, and new extern char __start_foo[] definitions are scattered through the tree. Create asm/include/sections.h to collect these definitions (and include the existing asm-generic version). Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
2015-12-10arm64: mm: fold alternatives into .initMark Rutland
Currently we treat the alternatives separately from other data that's only used during initialisation, using separate .altinstructions and .altinstr_replacement linker sections. These are freed for general allocation separately from .init*. This is problematic as: * We do not remove execute permissions, as we do for .init, leaving the memory executable. * We pad between them, making the kernel Image bianry up to PAGE_SIZE bytes larger than necessary. This patch moves the two sections into the contiguous region used for .init*. This saves some memory, ensures that we remove execute permissions, and allows us to remove some code made redundant by this reorganisation. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com> Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
2015-08-04arm64: alternatives: ensure secondary CPUs execute ISB after patchingWill Deacon
In order to guarantee that the patched instruction stream is visible to a CPU, that CPU must execute an isb instruction after any related cache maintenance has completed. The instruction patching routines in kernel/insn.c get this right for things like jump labels and ftrace, but the alternatives patching omits it entirely leaving secondary cores in a potential limbo between the old and the new code. This patch adds an isb following the secondary polling loop in the altenatives patching. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
2015-07-30arm64: alternative: put secondary CPUs into polling loop during patchWill Deacon
When patching the kernel text with alternatives, we may end up patching parts of the stop_machine state machine (e.g. atomic_dec_and_test in ack_state) and consequently corrupt the instruction stream of any secondary CPUs. This patch passes the cpu_online_mask to stop_machine, forcing all of the CPUs into our own callback which can place the secondary cores into a dumb (but safe!) polling loop whilst the patching is carried out. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
2015-06-05arm64: alternative: Allow immediate branch as alternative instructionMarc Zyngier
Since all branches are PC-relative on AArch64, these instructions cannot be used as an alternative with the simplistic approach we currently have (the immediate has been computed from the .altinstr_replacement section, and end-up being completely off if the target is outside of the replacement sequence). This patch handles the branch instructions in a different way, using the insn framework to recompute the immediate, and generate the right displacement in the above case. Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2015-05-05Revert "arm64: alternative: Allow immediate branch as alternative instruction"Will Deacon
This reverts most of commit fef7f2b2010381c795ae43743ad31931cc58f5ad. It turns out that there are a couple of problems with the way we're fixing up branch instructions used as part of alternative instruction sequences: (1) If the branch target is also in the alternative sequence, we'll generate a branch into the .altinstructions section which actually gets freed. (2) The calls to aarch64_insn_{read,write} bring an awful lot more code into the patching path (e.g. taking locks, poking the fixmap, invalidating the TLB) which isn't actually needed for the early patching run under stop_machine, but makes the use of alternative sequences extremely fragile (as we can't patch code that could be used by the patching code). Given that no code actually requires alternative patching of immediate branches, let's remove this support for now and revisit it when we've got a user. We leave the updated size check, since we really do require the sequences to be the same length. Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
2015-03-30arm64: alternative: Allow immediate branch as alternative instructionMarc Zyngier
Since all immediate branches are PC-relative on Aarch64, these instructions cannot be used as an alternative with the simplistic approach we currently have (the immediate has been computed from the .altinstr_replacement section, and end-up being completely off if we insert it directly). This patch handles the b and bl instructions in a different way, using the insn framework to recompute the immediate, and generate the right displacement. Reviewed-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
2014-12-04arm64: add module support for alternatives fixupsAndre Przywara
Currently the kernel patches all necessary instructions once at boot time, so modules are not covered by this. Change the apply_alternatives() function to take a beginning and an end pointer and introduce a new variant (apply_alternatives_all()) to cover the existing use case for the static kernel image section. Add a module_finalize() function to arm64 to check for an alternatives section in a module and patch only the instructions from that specific area. Since that module code is not touched before the module initialization has ended, we don't need to halt the machine before doing the patching in the module's code. Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
2014-11-25arm64: add alternative runtime patchingAndre Przywara
With a blatant copy of some x86 bits we introduce the alternative runtime patching "framework" to arm64. This is quite basic for now and we only provide the functions we need at this time. This is connected to the newly introduced feature bits. Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>